Lawrence Mullen

Biographic Data

ID3924757
NAMELawrence Mullen
GIVEN NAMESLawrence
FAMILY NAMEMullen
SIGNATUREMULLEN L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas
ORCID0009-0008-9687-8868
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Machinic aerial vision and the automation of perceptual authority

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Studies2026

    Aerial vision is not simply a viewpoint. It is a machinic system in which humans, technologies, and institutions coordinate the production of visual authority from above. This article argues that aerial vision has always operated this way; as a distributing perceptual agency across sensing instruments, interpretive practices, and institutional structures, and that contemporary AI-driven systems intensify this condition by embedding perception wit…

  • Remembering Paul Martin Lester, Ph.D. (1953–2023)

    Marjorie Yambor, Paul Blankenmeister et al.ARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2024

    Paul on the front porch at the McKinney Gathering, May 2023. Photo by James W. Brown.This remembrance of Paul Martin Lester is a compilation of five personal stories from Marjorie Yambor, associate

  • Loss and Renewal

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2024

    Northern Colorado near Rist Canyon in a space that was formerly devastated by forest fire; however, new growth signaled a rebirth.Photo by Ross Taylor“To everything there is a season, and a time to

  • Visual Cues

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2024

    Rain.Image by Juhri Selamet.The research in this issue of Visual Communication Quarterly deals with visual cues in one way or another. Very simply, visual cues help us to communicate more effective

  • Visual Methodologies

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2024

    Recently released detainees are greeted with food options upon arrival.Photo by Ross TaylorOur field employs a variety of methodologies to investigate the intricate nature of visual representation

  • Multimodality and Visual Representation

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2024

    In this, my last Commentary for VCQ, I’ll take a stab at linking the three research articles and the photographic portfolio. My thinking is that they intersect through their exploration of visual a

  • Cartoons and More

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2023

    During my tenure as Editor-in-Chief, VCQ has published several articles about cartoons. Indeed, political, advertising, children’s, editorial, and other categories of cartoons are humorous, satiric

  • Viscomm 37

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2023

    Viscomm 37 Montage: Clockwise from top left: Berkley Hudson presenting, firepit evening, Katie Krcmarik presenting, opening reception.From June 21st to the 25th this year, one of the highlights of

  • Complex Interconnections

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2023

    The Legacies of Colonialism. By Olli HellmannThis issue of VCQ offers a diversity of articles and images. But the interrelationships between the disparate concepts of queer possibility, obesity and

  • Crisis, Spectacle, Drinking, and Toil

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2023

    Without Any Formal Training. By Kazi Nazrul FattahThe first issue of the new year brings us words and images of crisis, spectacle, drinking, and toil. I find it interesting that, no matter how rand

  • Visual Communication History

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2022

  • Expanding Boundaries

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2022

  • Feast and Famine at VCQ

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2022

  • Visual Communication and Beyond

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2022

  • Visual Rhyme and Rhythm

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2021

  • An Endless Fascination

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2021

  • Death, Grief, and New Beginnings

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2021

    Moonbeam Marie Gardebring works on a casket made of willow in the Arbor Institute in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, July 27, 2020. The casket took several weeks to build and took over 50 pounds of w

  • A Convergence

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2021

  • Special Issue on the Visual Aspects of Political Campaigns and Politicians

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2020

    "Special Issue on the Visual Aspects of Political Campaigns and Politicians." Visual Communication Quarterly, 27(2), p. 120

  • What Day Is It

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2020

  • Vision

    Lawrence J Mullen, Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2020

  • Essential

    Lawrence MullenARTICLEVisual Communication Quarterly2020

  • Swarm methodology

    Lawrence MullenARTICLESocial Identities2009Cited by: 1References: 11

    This report documents the process of collecting visual data at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. After defining CES as a network and the concept of the swarm as a phenomenon with distinctive data collection implications, a two-stage process is outlined. Understood from the point of contagion theory, the first stage of the data collection process resembled a formalistic approach while the second stage focused on specific dat…